NOBEL PRIZES OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES

BY ADRIANA MOLANO ACOSTA.

ECONOMIC SCIENCES.

IN 1968 SVERIGES RISKBANK ESTABLISHED THE PRIZE.

DONATION RECEIVED BY THE FOUNDATION.

FIRST NOBEL WAS IN 1969.

ECONOMIC SCIENCES.FACTS.

NUMBER OF PRIZES: 41 PRIZES HAVE BEEN

AWARDED EVERY YEAR SINCE 1969.

22 PRIZES HAVE BEEN SHARED BY TWO

LAUREATES. 4 PRIZES HAVE BEEN

SHARED BETWEEN THREE LAUREATES.

ECONOMIC SCIENCES.

NUMBER OF LAUREATES:

64 INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN AWARED SINCE 1969.

ECONOMIC SCIENCES.

YOUNGEST LAUREATE:

KENNETH J. ARROW

HE WAS 51 YEARS OLD WHEN HE WAS AWARED IN 1972.

ECONOMIC SCIENCES.

FEMALE LAUREATES:

ELIONOR OSTROM.

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OLDEST LAUREATE: LEONID HURWICZ HE WAS 90 YEARS

OLD WHEN HE WAS AWARED IN 2007.

HE IS ALSO THE OLDEST LAUREATE TO BE AWARED IN ALL PRIZE AREAS.

ECONOMIC SCIENCES.

MULTIPLE LAUREATES:

THERE HAVE BEEN NO MULTIPLE LAUREATES.

ECONOMIC SCIENCES.

POSTHUMOUS PRIZES.

NONE.

ECONOMIC SCIENCES.

FAMILY LAUREATES:

BROTHERS:JOHN TINBERGEN

AND NIKOLAAS TINBERGEN.

MARRIED COUPLE: GUNNAR MYRDAL

AND ALVA MYRDAL.

ECONOMIC SCIENCES.

ECONOMIC SCIENCES.

ECONOMIC SCIENCES.

MAGIC WEEK. FIRST WEEK OF DECEMBER OSLO STOCKHOLM NOBEL LAUREATES

ECONOMIC SCIENCES.

ELINOR OSTROM. BORN:NY 08/7/1933 AFFILIATION: INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY. PRIZE

MOTIVATION:”FOR HER ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE,ESPECIALLY THE COMMONS”.

ECONOMIC SCIENCES.

ELINOR OSTRON. CONTRIBUTION: Challenged the

convetional wisdom by

demostrating how local commons without any regulation by central authorities or privatization.

ECONOMIC SCIENCES.

KENNETH J. ARROW. BORN: 08/23/1921,NY. AFILIATION: HARVARD U.,CAMBRIDGE. PRIZE MOTIVATION:”FOR THEIR PIONNERING

CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL ECONOMIC EQUILIBRIUM THEORY AND WELFARE THEORY”.

ECONOMIC SCIENCES.

KENNETH J. ARROW CONTRIBUTION: Made fundamental

contributions to the renewal of the general equilibrium theory. Work with welfare theory.Work in the teory of social chice.